Stuck: Request a certificate from a certificate authority in Keychain Access on Mac

Question

My Request a certificate from a certificate authority in Keychain Access on Mac is stacked as per the below screenshot it is taking too long to generate the certificate.

I filled the email, name and email address of the certificate authority.

I may be wrong in filling 'email address of the certificate authority'

If so, what is the email address of the 'certificate authority'?

Truthful

Answer 1

While "emailed to the CA" is the default radio button, are you requesting a codesign certificate from Apple? If so, you need to change that radio button choice to save that request to disk, like this:

And the details about what to do can be found here.

If you really do want to mail your certificate signing request to the certificate authority, you need to reach out to whoever your certificate authority is and get a valid e-mail address to send the Cert Signing Request.

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